Apartment Therapy: Brooklyn Designs

BKLYN Designs: Pb-R Surface by Wüd Furniture Design

There's been a lot of focus on counter tops lately, as designers try to guess what will follow granite as the "must have" material. ...

BKLYN Designs: Transforming Table by Big Prototype

We remember spotting this table during the fair, but we had no idea it transformed until we spotted it on swissmiss. Transforming tables are very popular here at AT (see our post: Best Adjustable C...

BKLYN Designs: Pratt Institute Designs

One of the booths at BKLYN Designs featured a juried selection of designs from Pratt Institute's Industrial Design undergraduate and graduate programs. While there wasn't a lot of information about...

BKLYN Designs: Bamba Chair from EcoSystems

This is the Bamba Chair. Its design follows the consideration to be as sustainable and environmentally-friendly as possible. The flat-pack design features a seat and back that are cut from the side...

BKLYN Designs: Takeshi Miyakawa Design

The work of Williamsburg-based designer Takeshi Miyakawa bridges that area between functional furniture and furniture-as-artwork. His Fractal 23 cabinet was recently a web-sensation and seeing it i...

BKLYN Designs: Brave Space Design

Brave Space Design has been flyin gunder-the-radar here on AT. We've featured their Hollow series of furniture and their Tetris-y Tetrad Shelving was included in our list of Top 10 Modular Shelving...

BKLYN Designs: Apartment Therapy Presents

It was a beautiful weekend in DUMBO! Though we were a little anxious about Saturday's weather, it was a great day to take part in BKLYN Designs. After scoping out the myriad of Brooklyn-based desig...

BKLYN Designs: Palo Samko Woodworker

Palo Samko displayed some amazing pieces inside St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO — the AT staff fell in love with his Rosewood Credenza (above) and Constellation Table (pic after the jump). The best p...

BKLYN Designs: Kupe Line Repurposed Bourbon Barrels from Uhuru

Red Hook based Uhuru was showing off their new Kupe collection of furniture at BKLYN Designs this weekend. Crafted from used bourbon barrels from Kentucky, the Kupe collection includes various benc...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Faust Decorative Arts, Platform, Site Specific Design, Sinotique & Palo Samko (again)

(Welcome to bhgirl, who helped us cover Bklyn Designs last weekend!) "The booth put together by twin brothers Christopher and David Faust of Faust Decorative Arts consisted of a single painted mura...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Daniel Moyer Design & Fabrication

That giant ottoman is our favorite in Moyers booth Daniel Moyer Design & Fabrication: this dude loves his skate boards. He loves his furniture, too. You can just tell that he absolutely loves what h...

Brooklyn Designs: 4-pli

Contoured bookshelves designed (and built!) by 4-pli 4pli is a young, impressive architectural firm. They design and build their designs in a workshop, builders as well as architects. They say they g...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Longoland, Pratt Students, Uhuru & Amy Helfland

(Welcome to bhgirl, who helped us cover Bklyn Designs last weekend!) "Joshua Longo of Longoland's booth was probably the most purely delightful of any, if only because Joshua himself seemed to take...

Bklyn Designs 2007: At the Annex

A tableful of Lotta Jansdotter's modern tissue box covers The Bklyn Designs Annex had tons of items for the home, some of which were smaller than that found in the rest of the show. We'd like to show...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Platform

Cabinets with details that allow for expansion and contraction in the wood Platform manufactures minimalist solid wood beauties. The designs are all about responding to the behavior of solid wood in ...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Elucidesign, Cake, Aviva Stanoff

(Welcome to bhgirl, who helped us cover Bklyn Designs last weekend!) "Newcomers Elucidesign made a great first impression, thanks to pieces like their "Virus" desktop cabinet, which was sophisticat...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Site Specific Design

The Childhood Memories debut at Bklyn Designs Site Specific Design's Childhood Memories is a line of imaginative furniture and lighting. It's SSD's first line of furniture and it was introduced here ...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Brave Space Design

Brave Space Design's Brave Lounge in the foreground Brave Space Design's aesthetic is informed by reducing scrap during production. Their Hollow Dining Set was front and center at the show. Both the...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Scott Raffaele/4Korners

(Welcome to bhgirl, who helped us cover Bklyn Designs this weekend!) "Here's some very handsome woodwork, from Scott Raffaele of 4Korners, based in Red Hook. His brother, Greg (just peeking in at t...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Palo Samko

Detail of doves set into a tabletop Palo Samko Woodworker offers traditionally crafted woodwork with heart. We loved the doves that show up in many of the pieces at the show, whether they were set in...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Pratt Institute

The Bean Screen: bean plants as furniture Pratt Institute had clever up-and-coming ideas on display. The school had a large booth with promising designs from the Department of Industrial Design. ...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Susan Woods, Nicholas Furrow, Palo Samko, Balsera, Amy Helfland, A&G Design, Haru, Laidback

(Welcome to Carrie, who helped us cover Bklyn Designs this weekend!) "What a treat to go drool at the Bklyn Designs show this weekend. With three venues filled with wonderfulness, there was a lot ...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Nicholas Furrow Design

Detail of the Strainer lamp: look at those copper-dipped edges Nicholas Furrow Design creates lighting that starts with found objects, like the Strainer lamp made of nested strainers and standard coa...

Bklyn Designs 2007: Intro, Pryor & Williams

Outside the show on a beautiful weekend Did you make it to Bklyn Designs over the weekend? If not, there's still a chance to see some of it. We'll be bringing you highlights throughout this week, a...

Bklyn Designs 2006: Christine's Favs

Welcome to Insta-Reporter Christine of 3 Little Monsters Design, who sent in this post on Bklyn Designs last weekend! There was lots of fun stuff at this past weekends Brooklyn Designs 2006 Show. ...

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